Meaning of ATTIRE
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- [n] clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- [v] put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
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| | Synonyms: | | deck out, deck up, dress, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, garb, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| | Antonyms: | | dress down, underdress | | |
| | See Also: | | apparel, article of clothing, bedizen, clothes, clothing, costume, disguise, dizen, ecclesiastical attire, ecclesiastical robe, enrobe, evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear, formalwear, get dressed, getup, habit, morning dress, outfit, plume, prank, preen, primp, rig, Sunday best, tart up, vesture, wear, wearing apparel | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\At*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attired}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Attiring}.] [OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF.
atirier; [`a] (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger.
origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziar[=i], G. zier, ornament,
zieren to adorn. Cf. {Tire} a headdress.]
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or
splendid garments.
Finely attired in a robe of white. --Shak.
With the linen miter shall he be attired. --Lev. xvi.
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\At*tire"\, n.
1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or
adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Earth in her rich attire. --Milton.
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. --Shak.
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her
attire? --Jer. ii. 32.
2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the
calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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| | Related Terms: | | accouter, apparel, appoint, arm, array, bedeck, bedizenment, bedrape, bundle up, clad, clothe, clothes, clothing, costume, deck, dight, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, dud, duds, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equip, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habilitate, habit, invest, investiture, investment, lap, linen, muffle up, outfit, rag out, rags, raiment, robe, robes, sheathe, shroud, sportswear, style, swaddle, swathe, things, threads, tire, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel, wrap, wrap up |
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